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Finance committee  There is, but it's at its infancy. Right now we've been working with INAC and it's primarily around remediation projects, so getting these guys used to working around a big industrial project. We find that because we're so involved in the remediation part of it, it's an excellent

September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting

Matthew Spence

Finance committee  Thank you.

September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting

Matthew Spence

Finance committee  It's a base metal mine and it ships out concentrate through Skagway.

September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting

Matthew Spence

Finance committee  Yes, it's at the end of its economic life, but there are a couple of new emerging projects in Yukon that will pick up and will start to help contribute to the economy. There's a gold project that was just picked up by Goldcorp—Kaminak—and there's a large copper base metal project

September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting

Matthew Spence

Finance committee  I think with the oil and gas, the problem is that it's very expensive to extract oil and gas in the north and you don't have a lot of infrastructure. At one point we were looking at building the Mackenzie gas pipeline down the valley to ship the three trillion cubic feet of natur

September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting

Matthew Spence

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, and you are right. An online staking process is being developed by Indigenous Affairs. It's getting close to being implemented. The issue is that it started in Nunavut, so there's also Inuit-owned land. The big issue at the moment is trying to get a

September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting

Matthew Spence

Finance committee  That's an important question. You're right. Right now some fundamental work needs to be done with the Nunavut Planning Commission to look at a more evidence-based approach. Again, the caribou herds are really a preoccupation of the Inuit. We need to work on determining why there

September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting

Matthew Spence